Category: Roundups

Now that it is Saturday, you might have some time to leisurely read things that you missed over the week, and we know that you might have missed some really good content here to, so here is a weekly recap for the best posts of the week.

10 Web OS You Can Load On the Browser – Did you think that the only OS you could use was the one installed on your PC? Well we break that myth, here are 10 web based operating systems you can load from your browsers and work just like your regular OS.

7 Online Calculators For Your Financial Needs – Calculations are getting just so complicated and no we are not talking about simple maths, here are some essential services that will help calculate your mortgage, credit card payments, tax withholdings and more.

The long awaited summer is finally arriving here are so are the stats for the month of May 2009, this month was pretty exciting since we started the Birthday Bash to celebrate our 3rd birthday, which by the way is coming up soon :-)

However time to get back to telling the readers how we fared this month and what to expect in June. Here are all the interesting stuff we would want to let our users know from May 2009 :-).

Do let us know your thoughts and views on how we did and how we can further improve, your views are very important to us.

February has come to end, but that does not mean that we will stop writing great content for our readers, however there are often times when you may have missed on some really good content, and as part of the Monthly Buzz we round up the best posts and make it available in a easy to find place for our readers.

Along with that there are some basic stats I would like to share with our readers, after all you are the driving force for us writing content, so we want to have a equal peek at what’s behind the scenes for you.

Its been quite a while since we have covered any of the new features released in Gmail Labs, and there are quite a few interesting features already been released, so here is a roundup of all the features that have been released in the past few weeks.

Gmail Custom Colors

Quite sometime back we had reported about Gmail themes, which allowed users to enhance the look and feel of Gmail, without the need to add any extensions or add-ons, however the Gmail developers have taken in a step further and announced the option for Gmail users to apply their custom colors to the theme.

It has been a great past week and the most exciting part of this week was that we redesigned and got a completely cool and slick look :-), if you haven’t seen the new look please do so, and give us your feedback on it.

Here are some of the best posts of this week, so don’t forget to catch up with them if you missed some interesting posts in the week.

Welcome to another episode of roundups where we talk about the various happenings that we could not cover individually over the week, this week has definitely seen a lot of new exciting launches and improvements. Lets take a look at what this week had on offer.

Opera 9.6 Released

Opera finally released the the final version of the browser Opera 9.6, this version of the browser has several new enhancements, including a magazine style feed reader, expanded opera link, optimized opera mail, increase speed and more. They have also added support for several new languages including Indonesian, Ukrainian, Estonian, Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil languages.

Welcome to another episode of roundups of the latest news, we could not cover individually. This week has been pretty exciting so far, with lots of interesting news from across several software companies.

Google Desktop 5.8 Now Much Faster and Stable

We have been big fans of Google Desktop search, but had a few problems with performance at times. The Google Desktop team have been listening to our problems, and have released Google Desktop 5.8 which improves performance and makes it much faster and stable.

We have been running the latest version for few days, and definitely see a lot less memory and CPU resources being used. You can download the last Google Desktop to see for yourself.

Welcome to another roundup episode, where we cover roundup all the latest happenings we could not cover into a single post for your convenience, this week saw several interesting news and we are pretty excited to bring them to you.

It’s the end of another great month here at Techie Buzz, several good and bad things happened during the month, and we will discuss them in this post. Unlike the last month roundup, we are including some basic statistics this time around, due to requests from our readers.

Basic Blog Stats for August 2008

No of Posts: 90

In August we wrote 90 posts which is comparatively lower than the 110 posts we wrote in July, there were several reasons for this and we will talk about them in the post, in the problems we faced section.

Traffic Statistics

Traffic increased significantly over July 2008, but there were 14 days of a lean patch which lost us quite a bit of traffic. Overall we were happy with the traffic, but it could have been much higher had we not been in a lean patch for 14 days of this month.

Total Unique Visitor: 80000+

Page Views: 150000+

Search Engine Traffic: 52.51%

Referring Sites: 36.94%

Direct Traffic: 10.56%

As you can see our main source of traffic, search engines dropped significantly by over 25%, and most of those were in the 14 days lean patch, keep reading to know what went wrong in those 14 days. In September we would see a definite increase and hope to see these figures changing significantly.